Plants growing singly, scattered in loose groups, occasionally in crowded tufts, reddish or brownish, fleshy, brittle. Leaf 40–180 × 2–2.5 mm; free part 10–20 mm long, ending below flowers. Spike 10–25 mm long, dense, 1–12-flowered. Flowers upside-down, crowded, porrect, 8–11 × 11–15 mm, greenish to brownish or reddish brown, with a reddish labellum. Dorsal sepal broadly ovate, 3–3.5 × 3.5–4 mm, three red bands, margins glabrous, apex with long linear mucro. Lateral sepals horizontal to erect, widely divergent, 8–10 × 1.5–2 mm, erect, apex boat-shaped. Petals ovate-lanceolate, asymmetric, c. 3 × 1.5 mm, margins usually notched or unequally toothed, sometimes entire. Labellum stiffly hinged to apex of column foot, oblong in basal half with marginal constriction, tapered in distal half to narrowly blunt apex, 4 × 1.5 mm, margins glabrous. Callus fleshy, channelled, of 2 lobes or single and bilobed, restricted to basal part of labellum. Column wings narrow, curved, entire.
Highly localised, but cryptic and rarely seen; growing among shrubs in open forest, shrubby forest and heathy forest in freely draining, sandy and gravelly soils.
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